PyPSA
Add floating wind turbines for sea deeper than 50 metres
Need to research costs and grid connection options. See existing Hywind park off Scotland, similar parks in Portugal, Japan, US, etc.
I am currently working on a floating offshore wind project and investigating the grid connection options and the integration with energy vectors. Happy to help on this issue.
Hey @ben0911, cool, might be worth getting in contact with @p-glaum (p.glaum (at) tu-berlin.de) who will work on this on our end.
Very interested to adding floating offshore technology. What is the state of #284 ? Happy to help move it forward :)
Hi @Edudiro,
actually, it is already implemented in my PyPSA-Eur fork. To merge it with the PyPSA-Eur master, I just need some time and find cost assumptions for the different investment year, which I have not found yet. Unfortunately, the Danish Energy Agency only has fixed bottom offshore wind cost assumptions. If you know a reliable sources for floating offshore wind cost with different investment years, feel free to post them here.
Glad to hear @p-glaum,
It is trully difficult to find sources, given the early commercial stages of floating technology. I usually follow NREL analysis , they have some nice models for offshore.
https://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy23osti/81819.pdf This one presents a regression model (FORCE) which derives the learning rates of floating and fixed, and then projects their bottom-up-computed baseline costs to the future
https://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy21osti/77384.pdf This one is a rather site-specific analysis using a different model (ORCA), which is a deterministic LCOE model. The article only covers up to 2032, but provides a data sheet with fitted data up to 2050.
If I find any new reliable source I will add it as well.
Hopefully this can be implemented soon, maybe under a disclaimer regarding the lack of reliable data on this technology due to its early stages.